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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

Peter Drucker

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem

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